Oscillatoria is a common genus of Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae. It often occurs in freshwater habitats. Oscillatoria forms a thin, blue-green coating on the surface or edge of flowing water. Salient Features of Oscillatoria The salient features of Oscillatoria are…
Cyanobacteria are the most primitive types of organisms (plants) with simple prokaryotic cellular structures. With the help of an electron microscope, Pankratz and Bowen (1963) studied the structure of cyanobacterial cells. The detailed cell structure of cyanobacteria is as follows: Cell…
In 1957 Dougherty has divided cells into two types based on the organization in the nucleus of the cell. One is a prokaryotic cell (primitive cell) and the other is a Eukaryotic cell (ideal cell). Prokaryotic cells are the most…
Firstly cyanobacteria are kept in as myxophyceae of class algae (blue-green algae). Later some phycologists kept it into Cyanophyceae, while others kept it into Schizophyceae also. On the basis of the electron microscope and biochemistry Echlin and Moris that cyanobacteria…